Members of Congress and car salespeople wouldn't seem to have a lot in common. Politicians spend their days debating big national issues, like how to resolve the "fiscal cliff," while car salespeople spent their time trying to get customers to buy, say, the 2012 Honda Civic.
But when it comes to perceived...
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New data from Gallup affirms official government statistics, showing that the unemployment rate is dropping sharply. Gallup's data finds that unemployment has declined from 7.9 percent in late September to 7.3 percent in mid-October, the lowest since Gallup began collecting data in January 2010.
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Data in recent months has pointed to continual improvement in the nation's battered labor market. But job cuts continue and there's still a long way to go before millions of Americans again find employment or the kind of jobs they want, two reports released Thursday show.
The first of those shows that the...
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Many Americans are looking for answers when it comes to lowering the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate. But a new poll suggests that few have faith in either President Obama or Congress to get the job done.
Just 38 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said that they believed President Obama had a...
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More Americans are finding work, partly because of increased hiring for the holiday sales season, a new poll finds.
The rate of joblessness as measured by Gallup fell to 8.3 percent in mid-October, down sharply from 8.7 percent at the end of September and 9.2 percent at August's end, the polling organization...
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Underemployment has been as much a frustrating feature of the recent job market as the nation's high unemployment rate.
What makes a worker underemployed? A number of a factors, including the inability to find full-time work in a chosen field.
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The stalling economic recovery has had job creation on hold for months now, and there's little indication that the labor market is improving, a new survey shows.
Job creation in July wasn't much different than the modest levels reported in May and June, according to the Gallup Job Creation Index. July's...
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Americans who find that there aren't enough hours in the day to do all they need to get done aren't among the majority of workers, but they still have plenty of company, a new poll shows.
Twenty-eight percent of working adults said that they didn't have enough time to accomplish all they needed to, according...
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Recent research by Gallup shows that job creation is the best it's been in three years. The latest findings from the famous pollsters show that 30 percent of employees nationwide say their employers are hiring and only 18 percent are saying that their employers are firing. This is a major improvement from a...
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